2022 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) nominations

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The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) has revealed its nominations for the best in film for 2022 and The Banshees of Inisherin leads with 11 mentions, followed by Everything Everywhere All At Once and TÁR with eight apiece. Fellow Best Picture nominees were The Fabelmans (5) and Women Talking (6).

All Best Picture nominees also earned Best Director nominations with the addition of Charlotte Wells for her debut feature Aftersun, which was also nominated for Best Actor (Paul Mescal), Original Screenplay and Best Editing.

Winners will be announced on January 9. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Picture

  • “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • “TÁR”
  • “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • “The Fabelmans”
  • “Women Talking”

Best Director

  • Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”
  • Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”
  • Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
  • Todd Field, “TÁR”

Best Original Screenplay

  • Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”
  • Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Todd Field, “TÁR”
  • Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, “Living”
  • Rebecca Lenkiewicz, “She Said”
  • Rian Johnson, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
  • Samuel D. Hunter, “The Whale”
  • Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”

Best Actor

  • Austin Butler, “Elvis”
  • Bill Nighy, “Living”
  • Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
  • Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

Best Actress

  • Aubrey Plaza, “Emily the Criminal”
  • Cate Blanchett, “TÁR”
  • Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”
  • Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
  • Mia Goth, “Pearl”
  • Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actor

  • Anthony Hopkins, “Armageddon Time”
  • Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Ben Whishaw, “Women Talking”
  • Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Tom Hanks, “Elvis”

Best Supporting Actress

  • Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
  • Claire Foy, “Women Talking”
  • Dolly De Leon, “Triangle of Sadness”
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Nina Hoss, “TÁR”

Best Animated Feature

  • “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood”
  • “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
  • “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
  • “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
  • “Turning Red”

Best International Feature Film

  • “All Quiet on the Western Front”
  • “Argentina, 1985”
  • “Close”
  • “Decision to Leave”
  • “EO”

Best Documentary Feature

  • “All That Breathes”
  • “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
  • “Bad Axe”
  • “Fire of Love”
  • “Good Night Oppy”
  • “Navalny”

Best Cinematography

  • Ben Davis, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick”
  • Florian Hoffmeister, “Tár”
  • Janusz Kaminski, “The Fabelmans”
  • Kim Ji-yong, “Decision to Leave”
  • Linus Sandgren, “Babylon”

Best Production Design

  • Florencia Martin (production designer), Anthony Carlino (set decorator), “Babylon”
  • Hannah Beachler (production designer), Lisa K. Sessions (set decorator), “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
  • Jason Isvarday (production designer), Kelsi Ephraim (set decorator), “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Mark Tildesley (production designer), Michael Standish (set decorator), “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Rick Heinrichs (production designer), Elli Griff (set decorator), “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

Best Film Editing

  • Blair McClendon, “Aftersun”
  • Eddie Hamilton, “Top Gun: Maverick”
  • Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Monika Willi, “TÁR”
  • Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
  • Tom Cross, “Babylon”

Best Original Score

  • Alexandre Desplat, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
  • Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir, “Women Talking”
  • John Williams, “The Fabelmans”
  • Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

  • “Emergency”
  • “Servants”
  • “Topside”

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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